2 weeks’ residency at the Institute of Marine Sciences in Venice, working on Project Maelstrom.

“MAELSTROM designs, manufactures and integrates scalable, replicable and automated technologies co-powered with renewable energy and second-generation fuel, to identify, remove, sort and transform all types of collected marine litter into valuable raw materials.

The project brings together 14 partners including research centers, recycling companies, NGOs, marine scientists and robotic experts from 8 European countries.” (https://www.maelstrom-h2020.eu/ )

Another aspect of this initiative is to divulge scientific knowledge about the state of our seas through art, and this is what I am invited to do. My project is to make artwork in loco using both the waste recovered from the sea thorugh their projects, and that produced in their labs, whilst interacting with visitors. The last 4 days of my residency I will also have my Maestra, colleague and friend, Giulia Vogrig, coming to help. Exciting!

These artworks will then stay as a permanent installation in their stunning building at the Arsenale.

More on Project Maelstrom here

Press Release here